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title: Thus had the king sworn by his crown, and by all that may bind a kin… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus had the king sworn by his crown, and by all that may bind a king, that he would do them bitter shame. Who acts: man, King. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 35

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Thus had the king sworn by his crown, and by all that may bind a king, that he would do them bitter shame.

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**Who acts:** man, King · **What happens:** have, swear, bind, do, crown · **To what, where:** king, matters

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This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8447:11:35
# text = Thus had the king sworn by his crown, and by all that may bind a king, that he would do them bitter shame.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	sworn	swear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	bind	bind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  | the king |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient |
| 2 | **swear** | participle |  | the king *not said here* |  |  |  | by King's crown | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bind** | may |  | a king |  |  |  | by that | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient |
| 4 | **do** | would | man | matters *= matter* |  |  |  | bitter shame *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **crown** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 8447 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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